Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...followed the case are similarly divided. Doctors acknowledge that they occasionally practice "judicious neglect," deciding, for example, against reviving a terminal cancer patient who has just gone into cardiac arrest or performing corrective surgery on a hopelessly retarded infant with a serious heart condition as well. Indeed, many doctors admit that the withholding of extraordinary medical care is a not uncommon practice at both ends of the life spectrum. Dr. Raymond Duff, for instance, revealed in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1974 that of 299 infants who died over a 2½-year period at Yale-New Haven...
Some people who share the Quintans' view have signed documents called "living wills" directing their families and physicians not to use extraordinary methods to keep them alive if they become seriously ill and have no reasonable hope of recovery. But a great many others admit that, when faced with death, the natural reaction is to cling to life. Robert Cleath, 47, a speech professor at California Polytechnic State University and a part-time Presbyterian minister in Cambria, Calif., has watched in anguish while his son Rob, now 23, has vegetated in a coma since an auto accident five years...
Another drawback is that this plan forces the College to admit fewer students, thus reducing tuition intake, the Faculty's main source of income. At the same time, expenditures would increase because of the amount of building--masters' residences, dining halls and libraries--needed to equalize all 16 Houses...
...play, the tutor doffs his persona and steps forward to explain, for those who might have missed it, the moral of the allegory. "Let his servility teach you to be free," he pontificates. It's a hard lesson to accept, considering that the world Brecht constructs fails to admit of any real possibility of freedom...
...frequently on the move, traveling under an assumed name. Last week, under the nom d'entrepreneur D. Thompson, he barely paused in mid-career to count himself "pleased" with having made a woman's picture at a time when male stars dominate the screen. He does admit to being "thrilled" by Mahogany's fast getaway at the box office. As ever, Berry Gordy's emotional highs seem to stem less from the heart than from the bottom line of his all-black ledger...